Speeding up boot time?

[Chris Smart]

Hi all,

Has anyone got any tips for decreasing boot time? I've done the usual
things, such as disable (what I think are) unnecessary services for a
desktop, but are there any other tips?

These are the services I'm disabling, please tell me if you think any
of those are a stupid choice:
capi, iscsi, iscsid, isdn, netfs, network, nfs, nfslock, pcscd,
rpcbind, rpcgssd, rpcidmapd, rpcsvcgssd, sendmail

There used to be a cheat's way of allowing an early login, I think it
was gdm-early-login, but it doesn't seem to exist any more (and that's
probably a bad idea anyway).

Cheers,
-c